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Is Beauty Just Force? A Corpus-Based Metaphor Analysis
Abstract
It is well known that beauty is important for the conceptualization of love (Kövecses,1986). This study aims to determine how beauty is conceptualized. In particular, using a corpus consisting of 73,268 tokens, we investigate what metaphors of beauty are significant in language, and what kinds of source domains it can be mapped onto. The two most important conceptual metaphors that emerged from the study were BEAUTY IS A PHYSICAL OBJECT (59.38%) and BEAUTY IS FORCE (20.52 %). In addition to Kövecses (1986) who claimed that beauty as a force metaphor is important for its conceptualization, this study illustrates that force is not the only significant source domain in the conceptualization of beauty. In fact, beauty as a physical object occupies a larger place in the conceptualization of beauty than beauty as a force. Other less significant metaphors that emerged from the corpus were, beauty is a place (8.29 %), a secret (6.11%), a plant (3.4%), or a nutrient (2.18%). Moreover, it was found that, when beauty is an event structure, a multidimensional mapping is observed between source and target domain, while, when beauty is part of a great chain, the mapping is expressed in terms of a single feature between the source and the target domain.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Dilbilim
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Mehmet Aygüneş
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0000-0002-0327-6905
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Aralık 2022
Gönderilme Tarihi
2 Haziran 2022
Kabul Tarihi
14 Kasım 2022
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Cilt: 33 Sayı: 2
